More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 79
The bear said, "I was also afraid of you when I saw that gentleman setting you down from the carriage.
Who acts: bear, gentleman · What happens: say, be, see, set down · To what, where: gentleman, you, carriage · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, gentleman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bear | det |
| 2 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 afraid | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 afraid | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 afraid | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 afraid | cop |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 afraid | advmod |
| 9 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 afraid | obl |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 saw | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 afraid | advcl |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 gentleman | det |
| 16 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 17 | setting | set | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 gentleman | acl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 setting | obj |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 setting | compound:prt |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 carriage | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 carriage | det |
| 22 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 setting | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | the bear = bear | of you; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | past | the bear = bear | that gentleman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gentleman=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | set down in a quote | gerund | that gentleman not said here | you | the carriage | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient you=Result |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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